Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-16
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A novel under the curious name of "The Wasp" is just published. It must have bad ending.-Life.
 wedding ceremony should not pass off too smoothly. For instance, there should be hitch of some kind.-Puck.
 If you wish to know just how little patience you have left, try to raise refractory car window to please fidgety woman on hot day.-Martha's Vineyard Herald.
 Young wife Cpetulantly)-WelI, even if I don't come to meet you every night as I used, what does it signify?
 Young husband-Tnat we have been mar ried six months.-Life.
 The Minneapolis girls have formed a socie- ty with the motto "The lips that touch wine shall never touch mine." It's good thing for the Minneapolis youth that the girls didn't mention beer.-Tid Bits. Little Boy Field-'sI can't play no more. B Little Boy Gould-"Oh, come on, what you stoppin' fora" "You've won all my marbles. :" "Ain't yer got no more?' 'fNary one. " ''Well, I'll lend ye couple ter begin over again. ."-Omaha World.
 In the French Senate: "Gentlemen, I think that in order to prove my point it will simply be necessary for me to name the ministers who have held office in the last ten years" A voice-''Then we are in for a night session!"-French Fun. Death atones for all.-"What is thisa' thundered the chairman. s'Here is news Who has broken the rules of this orders' ''He was dead" said member rising, ''or he would never have submitted. Life. After the clerk had pulled down every- | thing in the store without satisfying his cus- | toner, a woman, she asked him if there was anything else he had not shown her. ''Yes, | ma'am," he said, ''the cellar; but if you ! eI,o l to you. Howell Citizen.
 little premature in celebrating the Fourth ! Uncle Rastus?' Uncle Rastus Gin disor- | dered condition)-''P'raps I is, yo' honah, | p'raps is; but when it comes to celebratin ! de birfday ob Geo'ge Washington, sah, yo
 ought ter make big 1owances, deed yo ought. ."-New York Sun.
 A young man, member of a progressive
 euchre club, accompanied young lady tt church and was coaxed into doze by th' sermon. When the clergyman, in his -four
 teenthly and last," mentioned the f'las
 trump" and asked, ''How shall we reach tha
 heavenly abodea" the young man audibly re sponded, "Pn go it alone"
 Miss Kitty, daughter of Dr. Jones, physi
 elan, loves her father and takes an interest il
 his profession. The other day lady frien' | called to see her and asked her how she wa
 and how they were getting on ''Oh, prett.
 wel1," answered Miss Kitty, "pretty we'll plenty of colds, some bronchitis, and littl
 typhus fever; but, as papa said yesterday, t.
 make things lively what we need is 8 nic
 little epidemic"
 A Disguised Monarch-It happens ocea
 sionally that even the most DO werful monarch
 are unable to fulfill their wishes. On one oc
 casion Alexander the Great, who was bor1
 323 B. O., wishing to have his photograph l taken went to the studio of Heleodoros 6
 Brothers on the corner of Broadway and Parl
 Place. Upon making known his wish Heleo
 doros called Alexander's attention to the fac
 that photography had not yet been invented l ''I forgot all about that" remarked Alexan
 der; q guess I'll have to wait while,'' an
 he walked off very much disgusted. .-Texa
 Siftings.